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by eliben 13y ago
Competition is great, and projects like pepper.js ( http://trypepperjs.appspot.com/ ) demonstrate that coexistence is possible as well. What's exciting about this is that for developers all of this is very positive - t
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by eliben 13y ago
> Stay within the subset and your javascript will be fast You do realize that asm.js was not designed to be written by hand, don't you? It's a target for compilers. There are no bounds "to stay within" for hand-writte
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by eliben 13y ago
The Redis source code is very clean and readable. It's a great example of how a non-trivial code base can be written in good C style.
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by eliben 13y ago
From HN I'd expect more than that. Don't confuse HN-ers with "general population".
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by eliben 13y ago
I would expect the percentage amongst HN-ers to be way higher though.
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by eliben 13y ago
The dominance of 0 in the answers is illuminating
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by eliben 13y ago
While your comment is obviously snarky, it's also depressingly correct
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by eliben 13y ago
The art is compelling, but I don't understand the post title. Is this, in your opinion, some amazing feat of the underlying technology? Doesn't look particularly computationally intensive or anything like that. Yes, canvas lets yo
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by eliben 13y ago
"simple config files" implies an optimist. Good for you, sir.
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by eliben 13y ago
That's an ugly workaround, not a solution. It helps breed half-baked "solutions" like the "pipe through jsmin" Crockford himself suggests. Ultimately, it makes JSON unsuitable for configuration files (there are othe
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by eliben 13y ago
This sucks, because it limits the usability of JSON. It should interfere with its being a serialization and interchange format, but for configuration files anything without comments is useless.
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by eliben 13y ago
/rant/ Old news, someone on HN assumes everyone is a developer, and in the mean-time 99.9% of the market are not
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by eliben 13y ago
Chrome OS boots Linux really fast and gives you a usable system within seconds :)
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by eliben 13y ago
Might that simply be because there's more things you want to do? Isn't this a basic psychological tendency, to want more and more when you have more?
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by eliben 13y ago
It's still emptier than most other freeways and expressways in the area, I think you'll agree. Even during the morning commute north, it's very reasonable except for maybe the 85 intersection (and before you get into SF, natu
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by eliben 13y ago
Right - but this is specifically the limitation lifted by PNaCl.
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by eliben 13y ago
PNaCl is a liberally-licensed open source project. You can see its source code and compile it whenever you want. How much more open would you like it to be? As for documented, good timing :) Just today the first bits of the preview document
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Why is the compiler too stupid to see the difference(stackoverflow.com)
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by eliben 13y ago
This makes me wonder what the market share of Firefox Mobile is on Android. Does anyone have numbers?
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by eliben 13y ago
I think it's an important part of the model that there are no tips. This keeps the prices very attractive. You rarely see who brought you the package - you just find it by the door.
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by eliben 13y ago
Yes, I had that problem too :-) You really should disable tracking on stationary devices like tablets that are mostly at home. Your phone probably represents your location faithfully.
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by eliben 13y ago
For 99.9% of people it's a great feature and not an issue. For the remaining 0.01% it's a karma-harvesting device because everything Google/privacy related is sure to draw clicks. Hence the infinitude of tabloid-ish articles
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by eliben 13y ago
No. I don't think Linux (Ubuntu et al) is or will become so in the next 5 years (FWIW I use Linux both at home and at work). But a Chromebook is - and I'm speaking with years of experience observing my grandfather's use of a
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by eliben 13y ago
I did, a while ago. Nothing useful came out of Linkedin for me, but tons and tons of spam. It took me months to get unsubscribed from all the spam.
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by eliben 13y ago
If this is aimed at a niche market, I suppose it makes more sense. I was just under the impression that Microsoft has hopes of remaining a major player in the computer business; if it's content with marginalizing itself into a niche, s
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by eliben 13y ago
Because you can get a much more powerful laptop for much less, if you need a "real PC". If you need a tablet, you can get one for far less too. Heck, you can get a great laptop + a great tablet for less! This is a delusional move
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by eliben 13y ago
Those prices are... delusional.
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by eliben 13y ago
Google grabs able PhDs like hot cookies. Is this another "I failed my programming interviews, hence all programming interviews are bad!" rants, thinly disguised behind an attention-grabbing headline?
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by eliben 13y ago
Could you define how "ARM" would lose, given that "ARM" is an ISA which has different licensing levels and is implemented by multiple companies (including some that are larger than Intel - Samsung, Qualcomm, Apple).
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by eliben 13y ago
Intel's Atom line has been announced circa the time of the original iPhone. Should I say more?

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